Frank Gardner: Outbreak

Bestselling author Frank Gardner (Crisis, Ultimatum) skilfully mixes knowledge garnered as the BBC’s security correspondent with breathless action, to bring you fast-paced, heart-in-mouth excitement with superb twists and turns.

He talks to Caroline Sanderson about Outbreak, his new thriller, set deep within the Arctic Circle, where an abandoned cabin holds a dying man and a dark and terrifying secret. Within hours, a full-scale operation to contain this contagion is underway. Samples are rushed to the laboratories at Porton Down on high alert; what they discover changes everything. Supported by phone and data intercepts, British intelligence reaches a terrifying conclusion: Russia has been developing a new generation of bio-weapons.

Following the distinguished path set by reporters-turned-writers such as Frederick Forsyth, you can expect fly-on-the-wall insights, written by someone who has been there, done that and knows what it’s about — a real thriller for the 21st century.